CVS Appears to Steer Plan Patients
to Its Stores

By

Barbara Martinez and

David Armstrong

Updated May 13, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

CVS Caremark Corp. is apparently steering its pharmacy-benefits patients to its own drugstores by raising co-payments for some who fill their prescriptions at other pharmacies -- and competitors are crying foul.

The company's efforts are detailed in letters sent to patients covered by its benefits program, and which a trade group for independent pharmacists is preparing to give Wednesday to Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal...